Project summary
The project will study how information fusion, i.e. synergetic integration of available data and information, can be used to offer advanced decision support for tactical air unit cooperation in future aircraft platforms.
The project will address two main issues:
- Human System Interaction: Which decisions that are important in chosen scenarios. How these decisions are made in coordination between various cognitive agents in a tactical air unit, i.e. pilots and decision support systems. What information that will be distributed between them and how that should be displayed and controlled.
- Tactical support with situation analysis: Analysis of threats based on parameters such as proximity, kinematics, identity and ability to act. What will my opponent do next? Given results from the situation analysis suggest ownship and group actions regarding maneuvering and the use of counter measures and weapons. The suggestion shall regard own unit’s ability and intention. What should I do next?
Organization
The project is coordinated by Saab Aeronautics, Linköping, Sweden.
At the University in Skövde, the project is associated to the Information Fusion Research Program, with participants from the Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) at the Informatics Research Centre (IRC).
People at Saab:
- Jens Alfredson (PhD, project leader)
- Tina Erlandsson (Industrial PhD student)
People at SAIL:
Publications
Helldin, T. and Erlandsson, T. (Accepted for publication.) Automation Guidelines for Introducing Survivability Analysis in Future Fighter Aircraft. To appear in Proceedings of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) 2012, 23–28 September, 2012, Brisbane, Australia.
Helldin, T. and Falkman, G. (Accepted for publication.) Human-Centred Automation for improving Situation Awareness in the Fighter Aircraft Domain. To appear in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2012), 6–8 March, 2012, New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE.
Erlandsson, T. (2011) Situation Analysis for Fighter Aircraft Combat Survivability. Licentiate thesis. Studies from the school of science and technology at Örebro university, 23.
Erlandsson, T. and Helldin, T. (2011) Decision support system in the fighter aircraft domain: the first steps. IKI Technical Reports: HS-IKI-TR-11-001, University of Skövde. URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-4890.
Erlandsson, T. and Niklasson, L. (2011) Uncertainty Measures for Sensor Management in a Survivability Application. In Heiß, H.-U., Pepper, P., Schlingloff, H. and Schneider, J. (Eds). Informatik 2011. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI P-192). Köllen Druck + Verlag.
Erlandsson, T., Niklasson, L., Nordlund, P.J. and Warston, H. (2011) Modeling Fighter Aircraft Mission Survivability. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2011), pp. 1038–1045, 5–8 July 2011, Chicago, Il., USA.
Helldin, T. and Falkman, G. (2011) Human-Centred Automation and the Development of Fighter Aircraft Support Systems. In Proceedings of the Swedish Human Factors Network (HFN) Conference, Linköping, Sweden, November 24–25, 2011. www.humanfactorsnetwork.se.
Helldin, T. and Falkman, G. (2011) Human-Centred Threat Evaluation in Future Fighter Aircraft. In Heiß, H.-U., Pepper, P., Schlingloff, H. and Schneider, J. (Eds). Informatik 2011. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI P-192). Köllen Druck + Verlag.
Helldin, T., Falkman, G., Alfredson, J. and Holmberg, J. (2011) The Applicability of Human-Centred Automation Guidelines in the Fighter Aircraft Domain. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2011): Designing Collaborative Activities, 24–26 August, 2011, Rostock, Germany, pp. 67–74. ACM.
Erlandsson, T., Helldin, T., Falkman, G. and Niklasson, L. (2010) Information Fusion Supporting Team Situation Awareness for Future Fighting Aircraft. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2010), 26–29 July 2010, Edinburgh, UK.
Helldin, T., Erlandsson, T., Niklasson, L. and Falkman, G. (2010) Situational adapting system supporting team situation awareness. In Carapezza, E.M. (Ed.) Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks. Proceedings of SPIE Security+Defence 2010, 20–23 September 2010, Toulouse, France. SPIE Volume 7833. DOI 10.1117/12.866174.
Erlandsson, T., Molander, S., Alfredson, J. and Nordlund, P.J. (2009) Challenges in tactical support functions for fighter aircraft. In Proceedings of the 3rd Skövde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT 2009), Skövde University Studies in Informatics 2009(3):39–43. University of Skövde.
Helldin, T. and Riveiro, M. (2009) Explanation methods for Bayesian networks: Review and application to a maritime scenario. In Proceedings of the 3rd Skövde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT 2009), Skövde University Studies in Informatics 2009(3):28–32. University of Skövde.
Funding
The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) is funding the project with 8.35 million SEK over 4 years within the National Avionics Research Program (NFFP5). Saab Aeronautics provides an equal amount and the University of Skövde provides another 1 million SEK, with a total funding of 17.7 million SEK during 2009–2013.
